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OpenAI Announces $10M Superalignment Grants

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Yes, when put in a robotic body.

Ok so that's no "AI" that currently exists then.

Not for long

https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1734763060244386074

Boston Dynamics’ Atlas it’s probably a more capable robot at the moment but Optimus will be much better position to act as an embodied agent in the next few years.

Re: OpenAI Announces $10M Superalignment Grants

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I am not sure autonomous driving will arrive in the next 10 years, let alone AGI.

These people are masterful con artists, throwing out buzzwords to hoover up billions of gullible VC dollars (a single tear rolls down my eye).

How is that Web 3.0 going? Did we build Richard Hendricks's new Internet yet - sometimes I think they take ideas from the HBO comedy just to f*k with us.

Granted, LLMs are a much more useful and substantial tech than Blockchain, it's an insult to [biological] intelligence to suggest that if we somehow train these things on JUST a bit more data, they will go sentient and murder us all.

The AI image generators still don't know that humans have five fingers. I think it's a long way to super-intelligence, friends.

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>We believe superintelligence could arrive within the next 10 years. Generating predictive output is not consciousness or superintelligence. I think the "superintelligence" talk is more of a ploy to scare the industry into regulatory capture. Remember, AI deeply threatens the existing business models of tech monopolies.

On it's own, I would agree with you. Put in to a feedback loop with some form of drive/motivation as a guide, though? I think at that point we'll firmly be in quacks like a duck territory. And I no longer think that is as far-fetched as I would have even a year ago. Either way, I definitely agree with you on the regulatory capture angle.

AI may eventually help us discover if human consciousness and conscious will are determined by the physical properties of our biology, or if something else is in play. Physical determinism within the confines of our understanding is the mainstream academic view on consciousness. I find it highly questionable. We shall see.

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> This leads to the fundamental challenge: how can humans steer and trust AI systems much smarter than them? Our pets do this all the time. We're smarter than them (to a degree) yet they trust us absolutely, with their lives. Maybe our destiny is to be pets to machines.

Enjoy your tuna and beef flavored human chow.

I mean, if it is cheap, healthy, nutritious, and doesn't taste like cardboard, then I would not mind at all. In fact, I would voluntarily use it as a staple food.

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post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Ok so that's no "AI" that currently exists then.

Not for long https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1734763060244386074 Boston Dynamics’ Atlas it’s probably a more capable robot at the moment but Optimus will be much better position to act as an embodied agent in the next few years.

Then the AI isn't going for a walk, the robot is going for a walk.

I can currently take an AI for a walk on my laptop, that's not the same as them being able to go for a walk.

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Enjoy your tuna and beef flavored human chow.

I mean, if it is cheap, healthy, nutritious, and doesn't taste like cardboard, then I would not mind at all. In fact, I would voluntarily use it as a staple food.

It tastes like puppy chow. You’re comfortable eating the same thing every day for every meal right?

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> This leads to the fundamental challenge: how can humans steer and trust AI systems much smarter than them? Our pets do this all the time. We're smarter than them (to a degree) yet they trust us absolutely, with their lives. Maybe our destiny is to be pets to machines.

> Our pets do this all the time. We're smarter than them (to a degree) yet they trust us absolutely, with their lives.

With two caveats. Our pets overall don't steer us. They may nudge us to do certain actions, but in the end, we're the ones determining the parameters of the relationship not them. Humans abuse or give pets up for adoption way more often then pets do those to humans.

The second thing is close pets dogs particularly (and likely cats) were forced to evolve over many generations to take that role in the relationship. Those dogs that maintained any independence or whose goal wasn't to please their human owners were effectively bred out of existence.

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> We believe superintelligence could arrive within the next 10 years This has been the case since the 60s. "could arrive within 10 years" is the tech equivalent of "maybe within our lifetimes". Nothing to see here.

Maybe we can ask it to design a commercially feasible fusion reactor for us when it arrives!

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Re: OpenAI Announces $10M Superalignment Grants

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

I mean, if it is cheap, healthy, nutritious, and doesn't taste like cardboard, then I would not mind at all. In fact, I would voluntarily use it as a staple food.

It tastes like puppy chow. You’re comfortable eating the same thing every day for every meal right?

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